"Canonical has today publicly confirmed that they are working on a new cross-platform displayer server for Ubuntu. Called 'Mir', the X Window Server replacement is tasked with 'enabling development of the next generation Unity'. Which, in yet another about-turn, is to be rebuilt in Qt/QML." It'll be used for all Ubuntu variants (phone, tablet, desktop), and the first version will be released come May.

I'm personally not interested in SurfaceFlinger in this context, since it has hard dependency on bionic.

I think that's silly. It is likely less work to adopt SF (or Mir) to use a full libc imp. than to flesh out Wayland.

Wayland and Mir have no adoption yet, but if they will rely on incompatible drivers, it will create totally unnecessary and very sick competition for drivers including on the desktop, since Canonical stated they plan to switch to Mir everywhere (desktop and mobile).

Mir standardizes around the way Android drivers interact with SF, if Mir becomes commonplace(and not Wayland), then vanilla Linux would reap these benefits and it would increase the accessibility of these drivers to all screens using Linux.

The sickness of this is well demonstrated by Android already.

Games developers will just shrug and say that Linux is way to messy to support, or they'll say they only support Mir (and not Wayland) and so on. Either way it sounds pretty unpleasant.

There's two ways to deal with this: Get rid of Android (Good luck) or standardize around Android. Mir chose the latter.

Games developers will just shrug and say that Linux is way to messy to support, or they'll say they only support Mir (and not Wayland) and so on. Either way it sounds pretty unpleasant.

Game developers should be an abstraction above SF/Mir at all times. I cannot think of a single instance where a game developer will need to interact with the compositing core of the OS. There's a serious issue if this is the case.